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country. our daughter is a hero. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for being with us on this busy friday night. and we do want to begin with at breaking news. the united states beginning a series of retaliatory air strikes on sites the white house said tonight that they have clear, irrefutable evidence is connected to the deadly drone attack that killed three soldiers in jordan. the president's national security spokesperson john kirby saying tonight the strikes were successful, but that a damage assessment will be done when the sun rises in the region. and this is just the beginning. the president saying the response will continue. here is what we know. three of the locations hit are in iraq. four are in syria. and there were dozens of individual targets within each site. the strike lasted over 30 minutes, involving multiple aircraft.

those planes are now out of harm's way. and it comes on the same day president biden and first lady jill biden were at dover air force base in delaware for the dignified transfer of the remains of those fallen service members. we just returned from the middle east, where we were the first journalists to embed with the u.s. navy and saw the work being done firsthand to deter a iranian-backed groups from attacking american assets in the region. tonight, we have team coverage from the pentagon to the middle east, and we want to begin with cbs's nancy cordes, who is at the white house. good evening, nancy, and we are hearing from the commander in chief tonight, right? >> reporter: that's right, the president just issued a statement, norah, saying all of the facilities the u.s. struck this afternoon had been used to attack u.s. forces. and he added this: if you harm% an american, we will respond. pentagon officials say two b-1 bombers were among the military aircraft used to strike more than 85 targets in iraq and syria. the targets included command and

control centers, weapons depots, and drone storage facilities. all of them linked to iran's revolutionary guard and affiliated with militia groups. the strikes were approved by the president and launched just a few hours after he welcomed the bodies of three fallen service members back to u.s. soil. all three were stationed in jordan at a u.s. outpost known as tower 22, that came under fire last sunday. the bases air defense system had been temporarily taken off-line to allow a u.s. drone to return from a mission safely. and iranian-made drone struck sleeping quarters at the base, wounding 40 and killing army reserve soldiers will rivers, breonna moffet, and kennedy sanders. >> we know that you can definitely feel our pain. >> reporter: president biden called their anguished families this week. >> look, i know, i really do know, i got one of those phone calls telling me my wife and daughter were dead.

>> reporter: u.s. officials blamed the attack on the islamic resistance in iraq, an umbrella group of iran-backed militias. >> i don't think the adversaries are of a one-and-done mind-set, and so, they have a lot of capability. i have a lot more. >> reporter: wary of setting off a wider war, the u.s. has avoided striking iran directly, despite at least 165 attacks on u.s. forces in iraq and syria since the israel-hamas conflict began last october. iran's president warned today, "we will not start a war, but a vehicle for some wants to bully us, the islamic republic of ira response. a short time ago, u.s. officials said today's strikes were in the works for days but that they waited until the weather presented the best opportunity. they said the b-1 bombers involved took off from the united states, and they

signaled, norah, that there could be more strikes in the coming days. >> norah: nancy cordes at the white house with that new reporting, thank you beard want to bring enough cbs's david martin. he is at the pentagon. good evening, david. just about that, the president essentially telegraph that some of these strikes would be coming. did that impact their effectiveness? >> reporter: well, the military was perplexed by the degree to which the administration telegraphed these strikes because it gave the militia leaders and iranian operatives in iraq and syria country or go to ground by surrounding themselves with women and children. but if the militias intent to resume their strikes against american troops, sooner or later, they have to come out of hiding. and if tonight's strikes were successful, when they come out of hiding, they won't have much to work with. >> norah: and david, we heard from john kirby saying this began tonight, but it won't end tonight. what do we know about what

happens next? >> reporter: well, defense secretary austin said the president has directed additional actions against both the militias and the iranian revolutionary guards. officials here say there will be at least one more day of strikes in iraq and syria, and there will also be another round of joint u.s. and british strikes against houthi targets in yemen. >> norah: that's an important point, david. there are multiple targets in different places happening. thank you. and on that note, tonight there either height and fears of a widening war in the middle east. cbs's debora patta travel to the israel-lebanon border this week, and deborah is with us now. deborah, is there a risk of response from hezbollah? >> reporter: norah, it is unlikely that the land will choose to respond directly against the u.s., but one possibility would be through its proxy armed group hezbollah, which is these days based in lebanon, right on

that israeli border. the israeli military has been trading fire with hezbollah fighters since the hamas attack on october 7th and increasingly, there has been a lot of saber rattling. israeli troops are on the ready in the north, and prime minister benjamin netanyahu has threatened to turn beirut into gaza, while hezbollah's leader, hassan mistral outcome has warned that if israel wages war against them, it will be very costly. hezbollah has an arsenal of over 150,000 missiles, which according to israeli analysts, are five times larger and far more accurate than what hamas uses in gaza, norah? >> norah: debora patta, thank you. for more context and reporting, let's bring in cbs's margaret brennan, our chief foreign affairs correspondent. margaret, the president has made clear, he doesn't want a wider conflict, but this is difficult. i mean, they are trying to thread the needle on this.

>> margaret: they really are, norah, and this is going to be measured in terms of deterrence. success can be judged by whether these iranian-backed militias continue to strike at the u.s., as they have more than 106 to five times just since the month of october, with last weekend being the deadliest. the president is also trying to decide whether to keep that u.s. military presence in the region. 3400 troops between iraq and syria. is it essential, or are they at risk? three officials in the past week have said to me that they assessed that iran has lost control of some of these militias. that makes it harder, but of course, they are very close with the militia debora patta mentioned there, hezbollah, in lebanon. so israel's ongoing war has the entire middle ast on an knife's edge, and president biden is just trying to keep out of either israel pulling the u.s. into a war, going head-to-head with iran. >> norah: some republican lawmakers have said these strikes are pinprick speared why hasn't there been an effort to take out the irg c, the iranian

groups that have been embedded, whether in the yemen or iraq or syria, command and control? >> margaret: well, that is one of the criticisms, from not just some republicans, but some former military officials who have come out and pressed president biden to be more forceful here. one of the things they are trying to assess is just what tips that balance? what draws in the united states? if you can only focus on equipment and radar and targeting to make them less effective in attacking, is that enough? or do you actually need to go out and take out leaders, as president trump did back in 2020? but that decision to kill qasem soleimani, that general come has also left a leadership vacuum in some ways, so everything has a consequence. >> norah: really interesting, margaret brennan, was good to have you. thank you so much. >> margaret: thank you. >> norah: out to tonight's other big stories. injuries are to begin the landmark case of a school shooter facing their child's

actions. four counts of involuntary manslaughter after her teenage son for my killed four students at his michigan high school in november 2021. cbs's lilia luciano was in the courtroom as prosecutors of wrapped up their case. >> novembr the 30th of 2021, 12:51 p.m., you been with them. >> i could have. >> and you didn't. >> no. >> reporter: during cross-examination today, tried to tear apart jennifer jennifer crumbley's portrayal as an involved parent. >> your son told his only friend that he had asked you for help. >> no, i don't deny that. >> okay, and you also don't deny that he told his only friend that you left him. >> i did not deny that. >> reporter: instead, prosecutors painted her as a woman more concerned with an extramarital affair and hobbies like horses. >> in fact, you told a coworker that half of your salary basically goes to the horses. >> i might have, yes. >> reporter: while ignoring her sons cries for help, like a

drawing of a gun, chilling messages, and a bleeding body showed to her by school staff just hours before the shooting. >> i honestly thought the guy on their was a poor drawing of batman, the way the thing -- i thought it was a cape. i didn't know. >> reporter: it was crumbley's negligence, prosecutors argued, that led to the shooting committed by her then-15-year-old son, ethan. the parents gifted him the murder weapon just four days before the shooting. >> the shooter learned how to shoot and was given the murder weapon by his parents. >> reporter: the defense repeatedly argued that being an imperfect parent does not make her guilty. >> can every parent really be responsible for everything their children do? especially when it's not foreseeable? and this clearly was not foreseeable to mrs. crumbley. >> reporter: what does the jury need to decide now? >> whether or not, based on all of the evidence, that it was reasonably foreseeable for mrs. crumbley to think that her son would do this violence.

and it's got to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: closing arguments wrapped today. and jurors will be back here on monday to begin deliberations. now, if convicted on all four counts, crumbley faces a maximum of 60 years in prison. norah? >> norah: lilia luciano, thank you. turning out to the weather, with california already dealing with flooded roads and standing water, a second more dangerous atmospheric river is bearing down on the state. for the forecast, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, chris. >> good evening, norah. another strong storm moving in to the west coast going to bring a lot of rain. if los angeles ends up getting o what happened over the past couple of days, this will end up being the wettest week, wettest seven-day period, in almost 15 years, in part because of this: a strong atmospheric river, moisture pointed right into southern california and central california.

bringing this tropical moisture up into the mountains, forced up, getting even more rain, possibly up to a foot of rain in some areas. that means there is a high risk for some life-threatening and damaging flooding. not just the possibility, but it's likely, norah, on sunday into monday, there will be flash flooding. >> norah: important warning. chris warren, thank you. the district attorney overseeing the election interference case against former president donald trump in georgia admitted today to having a personal relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. in a court filing, fulton county d.a. fani willis says her relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade has no bearing on the case. trump and several codefendants say willis should be removed from the case, calling the relationship a conflict of interest. tonight, investigators are trying to figure out what caused a small plane to crash into several mobile homes thursday night in clearwater, florida. officials say the pilot and two people on the ground were killed. just 3 miles from the nearest

airport. cbs's cristian benavides is on the scene. >> reporter: huge explosion, tthe house shook. >> reporter: neighbors describe the moments after a small plane crash into mobile homes in clearwater, florida, as terrifying. >> i was screaming. call 911, call 911p >> we've got reports of an airplane crash that was above head. at this location is now on fire butte speech within 7 minutes, on scene battling the blaze. officials say four holmes caught on fire and most of the plane was inside one of them. >> they were able to throw a significant amount of water and foam on all of the structures, which extend wish the fire very, very quickly. >> reporter: flight reports showed the beechcraft left from vero beach and regional airport at 6:00 p.m. and went to clearwater airport, but less than an hour after take off, the pilot reported engine failure. another pilot described the scene to air traffic control. >> they went down hard, they are

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